Hi guysThis could just be me but I came across a problem with Evince I just couldn't get round and was solved instantly with another viewer

My missus bought 4 tickets for a Little Mix concert (yeah I know) which was emailed to her then downloaded to her PC when she tried to print them they came out like this

Nothing I could do could get it to print properly in either of 2 printers yet the previews showed it to be perfectly scaled so I went directly to the email and opened them up and they printed perfectly from there.

So I went looking for another PDF viewer in synaptic but there's not a great choice to be honest and what I did try was either crap or didn't have a print function, I looked online and found Foxit, installed it and it printed the tickets perfectly first time, in spite of that I don't really like Foxit it looks like it's written in QT so looks a bit out of place but it works nonetheless

So do we have a problem with Evince or is it just me and if we do have a problem is there a better choice available

Graeme

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If you can keep your head while all around are losing theirs then you're not quite grasping the situation

Is there a workable alternative ? .. should really be the first question.

Well we're not exactly spoiled for choice this could just be a one off problem

I just tried printing a few PDF files I have on my PC and they printed fine from Evince, the difference being that they had a paper size of 216 x 297 whereas the tickets were 300 x 399 so it's like Evince wasn't scaling down properly and Foxit and the online PDF viewer were I don't know

Graeme

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If you can keep your head while all around are losing theirs then you're not quite grasping the situation

I think Evince is probably the best lightweight open source PDF viewer. There's Okular, which I find to be better than Evince, but it's a KDE program and we know why that's a bad idea.

I agree but have you tried printing from Evince ?

Graeme

No, I usually don't even use Evince that much.

Though, if you want a workable alternative that's built into your system, just set your PDF files to open in your web browser. I can't speak for Chrome/Chromium, but I've never had a problem printing a PDF from Firefox.

The problem, for me, with all Linux PDF viewers, is the lack of support to verify or validade digital signatures in PDF files... Some programs offers the feature (Master, Foxit) but I never got it to work.

They all work with Windows (but that is something that I don't and won't have in my computer).

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My concern with Evince is the user interface. With it being so closely related to the GNOME project, do they at some point intend to push for Client Side Decorations outside of GNOME Shell?The closest alternatives then would be either X-Reader or Atril.